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01628pam a2200397 a 4500 001 EE0CB2B02AE711DE94715D06A8D7520A 003 SILO 005 20181009010727 008 950607s1995 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 95021365 020 $a 9780807613429 (pbk.) 020 $a 0807613428 (pbk.) 020 $a 9780807613733 (hardcover) 020 $a 0807613738 (hardcover) 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d FIT $d BAKER $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d UIB $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h fre 050 00 $a PQ3979.2.M28 $b P7413 1995 082 00 $a 843 $2 20 100 1 $a Maalouf, Amin. 240 10 $a Premier sieÌcle apreÌs BeÌatrice. $l English 245 1 $a The first century after Beatrice / $c Amin Maalouf ; translated by Dorothy S. Blair. 260 $a New York : $b George Braziller, $c 1995. 300 $a 192 p. ; $c 22 cm. 520 $a In the 21st Century, a drug that guarantees the birth of boys--originally developed to reduce Third World populations--leads to a worldwide shortage of women. The result is an explosion of male violence, wars, and the sale of women on the black market. The narrator is a French entomologist trying to eradicate the drug. 650 0 $a Sex preselection $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Population $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Twenty-first century $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Entomologists $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Science fiction. $2 gsafd 655 7 $a Allegories. $2 gsafd 700 1 $a Blair, Dorothy S. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180203030750.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20090701080000.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=EE0CB2B02AE711DE94715D06A8D7520A 994 $a 03 $b UIBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search